senate investigators after revelations that he met with members of fusion gps. reaction to those stories in just a second. but, first, congress avoids a government shut down by passing a spending bill. but it is setting up major legislative battle in january. ed henry is in washington tonight with all the details. ed? kimberly great to see. the key here passing temporary budget doesn t just keep the government open it paves the way for president trump to sign the tax cut into law with a senior official telling us tonight there is a very good chance that will happen tomorrow. the way the tax package was written signing it this year would initially have meant that it triggered some automatic spending cuts next year. but this continuing resolution, the stop gap budget just passed through the house and senate, includes waivers that enable the president to defer those cuts to entitlements until 2019. the president also made clear he did not want a messy shut down to overshadow the winning
nature and the focus, the breath of that information? yeah. wouldn t we love to know what that testimony was all about? i mean, look, i think this is very concerning to people. people get that people in the fbi are human beings, they have opinions, they have attitudes, but, clearly, the opinions in this case of a lot of people at doj seem to skew in one political direction. and when you are talking about something as sensitive as an investigation of a presidential candidate in 2016, people have to know and feel that there is going to be equal waiting. there doesn t seem to have been equal waiting. so, i think we are going to hear a lot from members of congress from that committee going forward about what the testimony was. and i think we re not done. i think we are going to expect to see more documents and more information on what precisely the fbi was doing. kimberly: talk to me about the duration of this in terms of obviously trying to build a case, perhaps, and acquire documents
revelations that he met with members of fusion gps. reaction to those stories in just a second. but, first, congress avoids a government shut down by passing a spending bill. but it is setting up major a legislative battle in january. ed henry is in washington tonight with all the details. ed? kimberly, great to see you. the key here passing temporary budget doesn t just keep the government open, it paves the way for president trump to sign the tax cut into law, with a senior official telling us tonight there is a very good chance that will happen tomorrow. the way the tax package was written, signing it this year would initially have meant that it triggered some automatic spending cuts next year. but this continuing resolution, the stop gap budget, just passed through the house and senate, includes waivers that enable the president to defer those cuts to entitlements until 2019. the president also made p clear he did not want a messy shutdown to overshadow the winning on taxes sayin
focus, the breadth of that information. board and we love to know what that was about. t this is really concerning two people. people get that people in the fbi sbir people. clearly the opinions in this case seem to skew in one political direction. we ve been talking about something as sensitive as the investigation of a presidential candidate in 2016. people have to know and feel that there is going to be equal weighting. there doesn t seem to have been equal weighting. i think we are going to hear a lot from members of congress and that committee going forward about with the testimony was and i think we arei not done. i think we are going to expect to see more documents and more information on what precisely the fbi was doing. kimberly: talk to me about the duration of this.us in terms of, obviously trying to nail the case perhaps and acquired documents, get some people, whistle-blowers, to come